Behind every whataboutism is a claim of exclusion. As such, they are easy to dismiss as irrelevant and distracting, since they are never already part of what is at issue.
CFP: Confronting Discrimination: Phenomenological and Genealogical Perspectives, Innsbruck, Oct. 27-29, 2021 (deadline: Apr. 30, 2021)
Outlining the agenda The idea of equal treatment is essential to the self-conception of democratic societies: the rule of law promises protection against arbitrary disadvantages. However, contemporary social reality is still haunted by forms of discrimination. Often, discrimination goes unnoticed, is tacitly tolerated or even endorsed. The global Black Lives Matter movement starkly revealed this contradiction, thus […]
Sarah Jama #defundthepolice on Twitter
Yesterday, the well-known Black Canadian disabled activist Sarah Jama posted these provocative words to Twitter: 1/I’m on a break from the internet but logging on to say: ableism is systemic. Too many people use social justice language/ spaces as a vehicle to process personal experiences rather than as *disciplined tools* to fight for movement based […]
Black Lives Matter: Glasgow MAP Online Workshop (Aug. 7, 2020)
Glasgow MAP chapter is hosting an online workshop focused around the Black Lives Matter movement Speakers: Dr. Emmalon Davis (University of Michigan) Prof. Charles Mills (City University of New York) Topic The workshop is intended to give a platform to speakers and participants to discuss the issues that have been brought into focus by the movement, […]
Democracy and Hope From Disregard and Anger: Some Thoughts From Melvin Lee Rogers
The guest post below was originally posted to Melvin Lee Rogers’s Facebook page. It has been posted on BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY with permission from Melvin Lee Rogers. ______________________________________________________________ Democracy and Hope From Disregard and Anger: Some Thoughts From Melvin Lee Rogers A long post and I don’t know if it all is clear, but I want […]
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